USE OF COMMON HEAD SLIDER FOR DIFFERENT RPM HARD DISK DRIVES

Magnetic disk device

Magnetic heads for use in different fluid atmospheres, and related methods

Slider gas-bearing surface designs to mitigate effects of smear in heat-assisted magnetic recording

Plating based pre-defined side shield and application in magnetic head

Head gimbal assembly and magnetic disk device with the same with slider having intermittent capture grooves

Bond pad sharing for powering a multiplicity of electrical components of a recording head

Multiple heaters independently controlling clearance of two or more read transducers

METHODS AND DEVICES FOR CONTROLLING HEAD-TO-MEDIA SPACING

Distributed temperature detector architecture for head disk interface systems

Head assembly with head-media spacing control

Methods of manufacturing a transducer

Method for active control of spacing between a head and a storage medium

Air-bearing surface of head for minimizing contact with disk

Data storage heater systems with diodes

MAGNETIC HEAD AND DISK DRIVE WITH THE SAME

Systems and methods for variable compensated fly height measurement

Magnetic device containing a heater

Magnetic head including sensor

Fly-height control using asynchronous sampling

Systems and methods for detecting head contact

METHOD OF DETECTING THE TOUCH-DOWN OF A HEAD, METHOD OF ADJUSTING A HEAD FLYING HEIGHT USING THE METHOD OF DETECTING THE TOUCH-DOWN OF THE HEAD, AND DISK DRIVE USING THE METHOD OF DETECTING THE TOUCH-DOWN OF THE HEAD

Method and apparatus for controlling head flying height in a disk drive

Method of determining flying height of magnetic head

METHOD OF DETECTING APPROXIMATE TOUCH-DOWN, METHOD OF ADJUSTING HEAD FLYING HEIGHT USING THE DETECTED APPROXIMATE TOUCH-DOWN, AND DISK DRIVE

Fly-height management in a hard disk drive (HDD)

Negative biasing a slider with respect to a disk to reduce slider wear and provide burnish rate control

Magnetic head slider and magnetic disk drive

Device with a floating head having a heater element

Write quality of HDD heads experiencing temporary fly-height problems

Head/disk contact determination

Thin film magnetic head having heating element

Reducing recession by heating a magnetic tape head

Head-slider including thin-film magnetic-recording head having reduced thermal protrusion

Disk drive and method for measuring clearance change in the disk drive

Disk drive and method for adjusting common-mode voltage of an element on a head-slider

Signaling method and apparatus for write assist of high coercivity media using integrated half coil

Hard-disk drive including fly-height-adjustment heating element and position-adjustment heating element and method of controlling fly height

Magnetic-recording-disk test-head and method of manufacturing a magnetic-recording disk using the magnetic-recording-disk test-head

Disk drive, head-slider and method for controlling clearance of a read element and a write element in the disk drive

Using an atmospheric pressure sensor in a hard-disk drive (HDD)

Magnetic head slider and magnetic disc drive

Perpendicular magnetic recording system with spin torque oscillator and control circuitry for fast switching of write pole magnetization

Recording head heater systems with two electrical connections

RECORDING MEDIUM DRIVING DEVICE AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FLYING HEIGHT OF HEAD ELEMENT

Contact type thin film magnetic head with heater for distance control

Recording head with current controlled gamma ratio

Disk drive and method for measuring clearance between a head and a disk in a disk drive

METHOD OF CONTROLLING READING OR WRITING OPERATION OF DISK DRIVE

Method and apparatus for active control of spacing between a head and a storage medium

MAGNETIC HEAD AND DISK APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME

Sheets counting device

Control device, control method, and information storage apparatus

HEAD SLIDER AND MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE

Insertion under read shield for improved read gap actuation in dynamic flying height

Method and apparatus for estimating flying height in a hard disk drive

Apparatus and method for stabilizing slider flying height over a discrete track media disk surface in a hard disk drive

Method of controlling flying height of magnetic head and disk drive using the method

MAGNETIC RECORDING DEVICE WITH AN INTEGRATED MICROELECTRONIC DEVICE

Correcting errors in position of an HDD write-head

Method and Apparatus for Reducing Head Media Spacing in a Disk Drive

STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF DETERMINING HEAD SLIDER CONTACT

METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR HEAD FLYING HEIGHT CONTROL, AND MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE

Method of controlling a filter coefficient of a continuous time filter and data storage device thereof

HEAD SLIDER, STORAGE DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING HEAD SLIDER

Magnetic head and information storage device

METHOD OF CONTROLLING FLYING HEIGHT OF MAGNETIC HEAD OF HARD DISK DRIVE

DISK APPARATUS WITH CONTACT-TYPE HEAD

HEAD SLIDER AND STORAGE MEDIUM DRIVING DEVICE

MAGNETIC HEAD, MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MAGNETIC HEAD

CONTROL DEVICE, MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE, AND IW SENSITIVITY CALCULATING METHOD

TOUCH-DOWN DETERMINING DEVICE, TOUCH-DOWN DETERMINING METHOD, AND MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE

STORAGE DEVICE AND DESIGN METHOD THEREOF

Systems and methods for variable fly height measurement

SLIDER, STORAGE DEVICE HAVING THE SLIDER, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUSPENSION ASSEMBLY HAVING THE SLIDER, AND STORAGE DEVICE

THIN-FILM MAGNETIC-RECORDING HEAD INCLUDING BUILT-IN ACOUSTIC-EMISSION SENSOR

Test device for magnetic storage device, magnetic storage device, and method of manufacturing magnetic storage device

MAGNETIC HEAD, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC HEAD, ACTUATOR, AND MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE

MAGNETIC HEAD SLIDER AND MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE

Active compensation of flying height in magnetic disk drives

Methods and apparatus to detect surface characteristics on magnetic read/write heads

HEAD EVALUATING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND INFORMATION STORAGE APPARATUS

Method and apparatus for controlling fly-height of a perpendicular-magnetic-recording head in a hard disk drive

Magnetic head with a heating element between the read and write element and method of manufacturing thereof

Harmonic measurement for head-disk spacing control using user data

Disk drive and method for controlling clearance in the disk drive

SES ASSISTED WRITE FLY HEIGHT MONITOR AND CONTROL

Disk drive, method for measuring clearance and method for writing servo patterns

Magnetic head, head assembly and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

Head-slider with protrusion control structure and manufacturing method of the head-slider with protrusion control structure

MAGNETIC HEAD AND INFORMATION STORAGE APPARATUS

Thermally assisted magnetic head

STORAGE DEVICE

System for controlling contact location during TFC touchdown and methods thereof

Magnetic disk device including a sensor in a case

MAGNETIC HEAD AND MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE

FLYING HEIGHT CONTROL DEVICE FOR MAGNETIC HEAD, AND MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE

FLYING HEIGHT CONTROL DEVICE FOR MAGNETIC HEAD, AND MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE

Multi-speed storage device

MAGNETIC STORAGE APPARATUS, AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF

MAGNETIC DISK APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PROJECTING AMOUNT OF MAGNETIC HEAD

FLYING HEIGHT CONTROL DEVICE FOR MAGNETIC HEAD AND MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE

PROTECTING MAGNETIC HEAD ELEMENTS

Disk drive head and suspension assembly having a slider with a groove and a connecting step

Thermally assisted recording head control means for protrusion management

Disk drive in which the dynamic flying height of head is adjusted

Ta/W film as heating device for dynamic fly height adjustment

Data pattern for fly height measurement

MAGNETIC HEAD AND MAGNETIC DISK UNIT

Thin-film magnetic head with variable-volume cavity in medium-opposed surface

Head control apparatus, head control method, and magnetic disk apparatus

Head flying height control method, write current value determining method, and storage device

MAGNETIC HEAD AND MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE

Device and method for specifying control value for controlling clearance between head and disk, and magnetic disk drive device

Magnetic head with delayed connection heater shunting

Method and apparatus for flyng height on demand heaters in a hard disk drive

NEUTRALIZING FLYING HEIGHT SENSITIVITY OF THERMAL POLE-TIP PROTRUSION OF MAGNETIC SLIDER

METHOD AND APPARATUS ESTIMATING TOUCH-DOWN APPROACH FLYING HEIGHT FOR MAGNETIC HEAD OF DISK DRIVE

Head slider and disk drive

Head assembly having a sensing element

ABS design for dynamic flying height (DFH) applications

Thin-film magnetic head having function of adjusting closure height

Vertically stacked DFH heater design for protrusion shape control

Write head with common mode termination resistor

Dedicated ID-OD writer with beveled pole tips and method of manufacture

MAGNETIC HEAD SUBSTRATE, MAGNETIC HEAD AND RECORDING MEDIUM DRIVING DEVICE

Information access device

Method of controlling flying height of head slider and information storage apparatus

Testing method for thin-film magnetic head and jig used therefor

Magnetic disk apparatus with heating device and magnetic head slider used therefor

Laser power sensor for thermally assisted magnetic recording

DATA STORAGE DEVICE

DATA RECORDING DEVICE

Magnetic head drive device and magnetic recording/reproducing device using this drive device

Disc drive device

Method and apparatus for an air bearing surface in a hard disk drive using at least one patterned disk surface

MAGNETIC RECORDING SLIDER WITH FLEX SIDE PADS

HEAD SUSPENSION AND HEAD SUSPENSION ASSEMBLY AND STORAGE APPARATUS

HEAD EVALUATION METHOD, MAGNETIC STORAGE APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Multi-objective optimal design support device, method and program storage medium

MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMUM DESIGN SUPPORT DEVICE USING MATHEMATICAL PROCESS TECHNIQUE, ITS METHOD AND PROGRAM

Magnetic head design having reduced susceptibility to electrostatic discharge from media surfaces

Grounding structure of TMR and GMR heads with a flying on-demand heater

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CONTROL HEAD EXPANSION IN MULTI-HEAD HARD-DISK DRIVES

Magnetic performance of a magnetic transducer operating within a hard disk drive

Head with an air bearing surface having left and right leading pressurizing steps, each with short and long regions

Magnetic disk drive and control method thereof

MAGNETIC HEAD AND STORAGE APPARATUS

Magnetic disk apparatus and magnetic disk apparatus control method

MAGNETIC DISK APPARATUS

SETTING METHOD OF MAGNETIC DISK APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC DISK SETTING APPARATUS

Self PSA adjustment using thermal adapter on suspension for improving takeoff in hot/wet environment

Disk drive determining operating fly height by detecting head disk contact from disk rotation time

Hard disk drive tunneling magnetoresistive annealing heads with a fly on demand heater

Method of reliable usage of dynamic fly-height control at environmental extremes

Fly height adjustment device calibration

HEAD SLIDER, HEAD GIMBAL ASSEMBLY and STORAGE APPARATUS

Thermal elements for controlling and manipulating thermal pitch static attitude (PSA)

MAGNETIC HEAD

Information storage apparatus for adjusting flying height of head

Disk drive device, manufacturing method thereof, and method for setting heater power value for a heater for adjusting a clearance

Magnetic head device

HEAD SLIDER OF MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE

MAGNETIC HEAD AND DISK DRIVE WITH HIGH-FREQUENCY ASSISTED WRITING

Adjusting a fly-height in hard disk drives

Magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording and method of manufacturing the same, the magnetic head including pole layer and two shields sandwiching the pole layer

Monitoring a fly height of a magnetic transducer

STORAGE APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL UNIT

Magnetic disk drive for controlling flying height of magnetic head

Head-disc interface (HDI) modal response monitoring

Method and apparatus for power saving mode in hard disk drive

Disk drive in which dynamic fly height of head is adjusted, and method of adjusting the dynamic fly height of the head

Head integrated circuit and storage apparatus including the same

Using inductance to measure writer spacing in perpendicular magnetic recording

Control unit, storage unit, and method for manufacturing storage unit

Air bearing surface with higher flying height for lower rotating speed drives

Magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording with a shield and a pole layer having a top surface with first and second portions at different heights, and method of manufacturing same

Systems and methods for reduction of cross coupling in proximate signal lines

Thin film magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, head arm assembly and magnetic disk device

Method and apparatus for detecting proximity contact between a transducer and a medium

Thin-film magnetic head that locally projects an element part toward a recording medium by thermal expansion

Magnetic head slider with diffusion stop films each of which is disposed between the associated terminal portion and lead portion or between the associated lead portion and seed film

Hard disk drive, method of controlling flying height of magnetic head thereof, and recording medium containing computer program thereon

Hard disk drive apparatus, method of controlling flying height of magnetic head thereof, and recording medium to contain computer program therefor

Glide test and calibration using flying height on demand

Non-magnetic contact enhancement feature

Hard disk drive having improved head stability at low temperature and method of applying current to a head of the hard disk drive

Disk drive and control method thereof

Disk drive apparatus and method of adaptively controlling flying height of magnetic head therein

Apparatus for determining contact of head slider and method of determining contact of head slider

Magnetic head including a pole layer and an antireflection film sandwiched by two shields

MAGNETIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING MAGNETIC DEVICE

Storage device and storage device controller including feature for causing thermal protrusion phenomenon in the head during startup period of device

Head slider, magnetic storage device and control circuit, having cleaning mechanism

Head slider having light emission device and optical absorption, method for controlling flying height thereof, and controlling circuit thereof

Method for specifying control value for controlling clearance adjustment amount between head and disk, disk drive device and manufacturing method thereof

Dynamic flying height read/write head with off-track contact capability at touch down in hard disk drives

Magnetic recording device including a thermal proximity sensor

Thin-film magnetic head having heating element with lower-resistance portion

Magnetic recording device with an integrated microelectronic device

Suspension having magnetic head assembly mounted thereon and magnetic recording disk drive using the suspension

Magnetic head slider

Burn-in process of producing data correlating elevation of disk drive head to temperature and method of controlling the elevation of the disk drive head using the data

HEAD SLIDER AND STORAGE MEDIUM DRIVE

Hard disk drive apparatus, method to control flying height of magnetic head thereof, and recording media for computer program therefor

Hard disk drive apparatus, method to control flying on demand of hard disk drive apparatus using thermal asperity signal, and recording media for computer program thereof

Disk Drive Fly Height Monitoring Arrangement and Method

Method of testing a magnetic head

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPACING CONTROL IN A DISK DRIVE

Head slider, hard disk drive having the same, and method of controlling the height of the head slider

Head gimbal assembly with improved interconnection between head slider and suspension, fabricating method thereof, and magnetic disk drive with the same

Spectral analysis of a position error signal

Magnetic head that includes negative expansion material

Slider air bearing for mobile drives

Enabling intermittent contact recording on-demand

System and method for compliant, adaptive hard drive sliders

Tradeoff between reliability and performance for a disk drive

Thin film magnetic head with protrusion heater and temperature correcting resistor

Head slider capable of being reliably released from effect of moving recording medium

Magnetic head slider having multiple step portions

Thin film magnetic head using a shunt line connecting to the magnetic layer at a position that deviates from the center of the heat generating region

Head support mechanism, magnetic head assembly, and magnetic disk drive apparatus

Disk drive with head fly-height compensation for disk surface variations

Manufacturing method of floating head, manufacturing method of storage device, and floating head inspecting apparatus

Storage apparatus, storage medium, and control method and program of storage apparatus

PROCESS FOR PRODUCING HARD DISK DEVICE, PROCESS FOR ADJUSTING FLYING HEIGHT OF MAGNETIC HEAD, AND HARD DISK DEVICE

Air bearing surface method and apparatus optimizing flying height on demand efficiency during flying height on demand activity of slider in a hard disk drive

Slider with an air bearing surface having a inter-cavity dam with OD and ID dam surfaces of different heights

Head having a transducer heater and an air bearing surface with a flow-diversion dam and pressure-relief trough disposed upstream of the transducer

Air bearing design with a flatter pitch profile for reducing particle TAs

Head controller, storage device, and head controlling method

Control device, control method, and storage apparatus for controlling read head and write head clearance

Thin-film magnetic head with heating portion and protrusion adjustment portion, head gimbal assembly equipped head, magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus equipped HGA, and manufacturing method of head

Fly height actuator/void region in basecoat

Head slider including heater causing expansion of lower shielding layer

Head amplifier with a heat controller

Head slider having protruding head element and apparatus for determining protrusion amount of head element

Thin-film magnetic head with coil-insulating layer that thermal expansion coefficient and young'S modulus are specified

Air pressure sensor

Storage apparatus, control method, control device, and program which preheats head

Magnetic reproducing method for suppressing low temperature noise

Testing method of head element and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus capable of head evaluating

Device and method for adjusting distance between magnetic head and data storage medium

Perpendicular magnetic recording head including heating element

TRANSDUCER FLY HEIGHT DISTRIBUTION RANGE REDUCTION

Magnetic head and magnetic disk drive including an electrothermal body

Magnetic head having a heating coil

Thin film magnetic head with flying height adjustment capability

Method and apparatus reducing flying height drop in a hard disk drive under humid conditions

CONTACT DETECTION USING CALIBRATED SEEKS

Thin film magnetic head having heating element

Dual polarity bias for prolonging the life of a heating element in magnetic data storage devices

Dual thickness carbon overcoat

Closed loop fly height control

Head damage detection based on actuation efficiency measurements

Regulating data writes responsive to head fly height

Estimation and control of head fly height

Controlling head heating based on upcoming data sector write pattern

Estimating residual temperature for flying height adjustment of read/write heads

Algorithm to detect the touch down of the flying head on disk

Thin film magnetic head

Apparatus and method for preventing excessive thermal pole tip protrusion in slider of a hard disk drive

Hard disk drive, method for controlling FOD voltage thereof, and computer readable recording medium recording the method

Information-recording/reproducing apparatus and method of detecting the gap between a head and a recording medium

Magnetic head slider with resistive heating film meandering in stacking direction

Disk drive and control method thereof

Magnetic head slider

Slider incorporating heaters and ELGs and method of fabrication

Magnetic spacing control method for magnetic head, read/write circuit, and magnetic disk device using same

Flying height control for read-to-write and write-to-read transitions

Controlling head flying height based on head heater resistance

Apparatus and method to control flying height of magnetic head in retry mode and disk drive using the same

Actuation efficiency based contact detection

Fly height compensation using temperature and non-repeatable runouts

Storage device, control method, control device, and program

Storage device, control device, control method, and program

Fly height calibration for read/write heads

Head inspection apparatus and method thereof

Circuit for flying height on demand

Method of forming a conductive pattern

Heater control method and storage apparatus

MAGNETIC HEAD DEVICE CAPABLE OF STABILIZING THE FLOATING DISTANCE BETWEEN A MAGNETIC FUNCTIONAL UNIT AND THE SURFACE OF A RECORDING MEDIUM

Thin-film magnetic head controlling floating amount by locally projecting element portion toward recording medium by thermal expansion and method of manufacturing the same

Recording disk drive with reduced noise thermal flyheight control

Methods and apparatus for controlling read/write duty cycle in a data storage device based on thermal inputs

Magnetic head slider

Method to detect the touch down of the flying head on disk

Fly on demand in situ clearance measurement concept in hard disk drive

Disk device and method of controlling the disk device

Transducer-data storage medium spacing adjustment

THIN-FILM MAGNETIC HEAD HAVING CONTROLLED LEVITATION AMOUNT BY LOCALLY PROJECTING AN ELEMENT PORTION TOWARD RECORDING MEDIUM USING THERMAL EXPANSION

Disk drive that controls heater current according to rotational speed

Media drive and control method for the same

Flying head slider and recording medium drive

Information storage apparatus

β-phase tantalum thin-film resistor and thin-film magnetic head with the resistor

Apparatus and method for detecting contact between head and recording medium, and method for manufacturing head

Contact detecting apparatus, and method for detecting contact

Contact type thin film magnetic head with heaters for distance control

Magnetic disk drive